Abortion Quote by Harry A. Blackmun

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court…

— Harry A. Blackmun

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

— Harry A. Blackmun

The death penalty experiment has failed.

— Harry A. Blackmun

The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that is always…

— Harry A. Blackmun

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . .…

— Harry A. Blackmun

This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States…

— Harry A. Blackmun

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

— Harry A. Blackmun

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that…

— Harry A. Blackmun

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,

— Harry A. Blackmun

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

— Harry A. Blackmun

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some…

— Harry A. Blackmun

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned…

— Harry A. Blackmun